The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: Nigeria
Daramola, O. 2019
‘Environmental sanitation implication of the disposal of the dead: a tale of two traditional African cities’, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 21:2, 727-744.
Daramola, O. 2017
‘Polluting till death and beyond: A perception study of the disposal of the dead in a traditional African city’, Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 28:3, 400-413.
Douglas, K. 2013
‘The current state of public cemeteries in Rivers State, Nigeria’, Nigerian Health Journal, 13:1, 58-61.
Ikwuemesi, C. & Onwuegbuna, I. 2017
‘Creativity in calamity: Igbo funeral as interface of visuality and performance’ Continuum, 32:2, 184-200.
Izunwa, M. 2016
‘Customary rights to a befitting burial: a jurisprudential appraisal of four Nigerian cultures’, Ogirisi: A New Journal of African Studies, 12, 122–145
Smith, D. 2004
‘Burials and belonging in Nigeria: rural/urban relations and social inequality in a contemporary African ritual’, American Anthropologist, 106:3, 569-79.
Smith, D. 2018
‘Migration, death and conspicuous redistribution in Southeastern Nigeria’, in A. C. G. M. Robben (ed.) (2018) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, John Wiley & Sons, 71-83.
Ugwu, S. and Nwankwo, B.E. 2020
Modern funeral rites during COVID-19 pandemic’, Nigerian Journal of Social Psychology 3.1.
